"Shipping giants Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk pause Red Sea travel amid attacks" (CNBC)

[Snaefell3]

7 minutes ago, RetiredLifer said:

we saw this heading in the opposite direction

You'll be able to "dine out on" that for years.  😉

 

Glad it seems most of the action was in your rear view mirror, and you didn't have a front-row seat.

[RetiredLifer]

1 minute ago, Snaefell3 said:

You'll be able to "dine out on" that for years.  😉

 

Glad it seems most of the action was in your rear view mirror, and you didn't have a front-row seat.

There were a few incidents that happened prior to and after we passed certain areas which we read about after the fact.  Nothing that we were aware of in “real time.”

[paf225]

11 hours ago, RetiredLifer said:

We had armed guards aboard.  The Riviera on MarineTraffic.com also showed “Armed Guards aboard”. At one point when we were in the shipping channel just as we had entered the Gulf Of Aden we saw this heading in the opposite direction

 

That vessel appears to be the Chinese guided missile frigate Linyi.  Isn’t there enough tension in this region already?  Regards, Paul

[Snaefell3]

9 hours ago, paf225 said:

That vessel appears to be the Chinese guided missile frigate Linyi.  Isn’t there enough tension in this region already?  Regards, Paul

The PLAN has had a naval base with escort task forces in Djibouti since 2017, but has pretty much ignored these attacks despite some of the attacks being on PRC shipping.

[floridatravelersforlife]

Frankly I don't wish to see another Achille Lauro episode off the Egyptian Coast. That was the PLA.  They were benign compared to the Shiite factions today. 

 

No armed guards will prevent a missile attack 

 

We cancelled our Dubai to Haifa cruise May 2024 for these reasons back in the Fall

 

 

[Snaefell3]

29 minutes ago, floridatravelersforlife said:

We cancelled our Dubai to Haifa cruise May 2024 for these reasons back in the Fall

...and our next cruise is Nassau/Hamilton/Norfolk/Charleston/Canaveral.  Call us ...cautious, too.

[ORV]

56 minutes ago, Snaefell3 said:

...and our next cruise is Nassau/Hamilton/Norfolk/Charleston/Canaveral.  Call us ...cautious, too.

I've taken that a couple of times on Oceania out of Miami. I think the last one we forgot to go to Bermuda. We got Jacksonville instead. Lot's of people were upset. 

[Snaefell3]

1 hour ago, ORV said:

we forgot to go to Bermuda. We got Jacksonville instead.

SHHHH!   Don't give them ideas. We already traded an overnight in Charleston for GSC.

[curmudgeon98]

The Red Sea (and Persian Gulf) have been on my "don't need to go there" list for quite a few years.  China (and Hong Kong) have joined them in recent years.  We like to travel, but we feel no need to try to see everything.  

 

The present situation with Yemen, with helicopter-born assaults, drone attacks, and ballistic missile attacks on shipping is pretty extreme.    

[clo]

2 hours ago, curmudgeon98 said:

my "don't need to go there" list

There do seem to be people who want it all 🙂

[floridatravelersforlife]

21 hours ago, clo said:

There do seem to be people who want it all 🙂

And they do so at at their own risk.  They may not be aware of the guy that the terrorists rolled off the Achille Lauro in a wheelchair into the sea back in 1985.

  

[shepherd really]

48 minutes ago, floridatravelersforlife said:

And they do so at at their own risk.  They may not be aware of the guy that the terrorists rolled off the Achille Lauro in a wheelchair into the sea back in 1985.

  

His name was Leon Klinghoffer.